Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

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The language of cultural heritage is pervasive in China today. In official rhetoric and policy it is linked to political and economic goals, and serves as a resource for political legitimacy, soft power, and economic development. But the heritage discourse has also opened up space for and legitimize...

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Other Authors: Svensson, Marina, 1961- (Editor), Maags, Christina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
China.
Chine > Civilisation.
China > Civilization.
China > Cultural policy.
Cultural property.
Cultural policy.
Civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
Museology and heritage studies Mod Museology and heritage studies.
Cultural property > China.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags
  • Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues
  • Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke
  • From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang
  • Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan
  • Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations
  • Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags
  • Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan
  • Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield
  • Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen
  • Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements
  • Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui
  • The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam
  • Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.

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